Ronaldo's dead end before the FIFA Club World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has delighted fans by revealing that Ronaldo and Messi could be on the same team at the FIFA Club World Cup. But that may just be a media stunt.

Ronaldo (left) is unlikely to wear Al Nassr's shirt next season - Photo: Reuters

The problem is that Messi has had a place in the FIFA Club World Cup while playing for Inter Miami for the past two years, while Ronaldo has not.

Al Nassr suffers heavy losses

Fans can’t complain about Inter Miami getting a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup. The tournament has been planned for years (around 2019). And when Messi chose the United States as his destination in the summer of 2023, it was likely part of the plan. The United States will obviously get an extra spot as hosts, and it’s up to them to choose which teams to play in the tournament.

Ronaldo fans should accept the fact that if Messi had chosen to join Atlanta or Chicago (the weakest teams in MLS at the moment), a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup would have been handed to them. As for Ronaldo, he chose money when he joined Saudi Arabia. Nearly 3 years after that decision, Ronaldo and his fans have been completely disillusioned. Not only has he been left empty-handed in terms of collective achievements, Ronaldo has also been singled out as the team's problem.

In the final match of the season, the Portuguese superstar was spotted looking extremely disappointed when teammate Sadio Mane scored. No professional player would behave like that except... Ronaldo. His ego was so big that one of the two best superstars in contemporary football had to spend the last days of his career in a gloomy situation.

Al Nassr Club bluntly asked Ronaldo to cut his salary in half to renew his contract. For CR7, that was nothing more than an insult. But if AL Nassr continues to waste money on Ronaldo, they will be the ones to suffer heavy losses. In the past 2 years, Al Nassr has paid nearly half a billion USD in salary to CR7 but still has nothing.

Not only that, statistics have shown that the number of spectators coming to Al Nassr's stadium this season is even less than the period before Ronaldo. The bubble has finally burst. Ronaldo only helps attract attention for a short time.

Ronaldo may have a new destination - Photo: REUTERS

Ronaldo also has difficulties

After 3 years, Ronaldo earned half a billion dollars in Saudi Arabia, and scored 99 more goals, bringing him closer and closer to the historic milestone of 1,000 goals. For a player at the age of 40, that is already more than enough. But because this is Ronaldo, who always pushes his ambitions to the highest level, fans expect more. Especially when CR7 sets the goal of winning the 2026 World Cup.

To do so, Ronaldo needs to avoid the mistakes of the 2022 World Cup. During the World Cup's off-season (at the end of the year instead of mid-year), the Portuguese superstar made things difficult for himself when he had a conflict with coach Erik Ten Hag at Man United. As a result, Ronaldo barely played in the first 3 months of the 2022-2023 season. And that led to him completely losing his form when entering the 2022 World Cup.

Unfortunately, Ronaldo seems to be in a similar situation. The World Cup is only a year away, but now Ronaldo is in a situation where he "can't leave, can't stay" at Al Nassr.

Not only that, there are not many options for CR7 to leave. Ronaldo is unlikely to move to any other team besides Al Nassr. But returning to Europe is an even more distant prospect. Perhaps that is why President Infantino has spread the rumor that "Messi and Ronaldo play together" in Inter Miami's shirt.

But if so, isn't that like Ronaldo lowering himself to beg his lifelong rival for a position to play football?

HUY DANG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/ngo-cut-cua-ronaldo-truoc-giai-fifa-club-world-cup-20250529094458661.htm